While its Q2 financials were disappointing, Lexmark has a new source of income in the settlements it is now getting from various remanufacturers. Image source: Photos.com.

Toward the end of May, Lexmark’s lawyers sent out letters offering a “one-time settlement offer” to remanufacturers that had purchased empties from Greentec International. The OEM alleged that the empties in question were sourced from outside the United States, which constitutes patent infringement under U.S. law, and warned the recipients that they could either settle now or be named as defendants in an ongoing patent-infringement suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (see Lexmark v. Ink Technologies Printer Supplies et al. [2010]).